This refers to sexual harassment. Preya searches for answers:

Even in modern India, in the highly educated middle and upper classes, it’s more common than not for a woman to feel that it’s natural to have her future completely decided for her. In fact, there is the internalized, never-questioned belief that her life was not truly hers to begin with. I am not generalizing; I can only think of a few contrary examples. This issue is often oversimplified as men oppressing women, but the problem is more deeply entrenched and the differences more chasmic. Men have complete sovereignty over women’s sexuality so that they feel they have just as much right to suppress it as to take advantage of it. Either way, women are not seen as (and consequently don’t see themselves as) strong, self-sufficient individuals.